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Nimesh Patel, a comedian known for being the first Indian-American writer for Saturday Night Live, had his stand-up routine at cultureSHOCK cut short earlier tonight due to uncomfortable jokes. cultureSHOCK, an event hosted by the Asian American Alliance, is a charity performance showcase that aims to provide a space to celebrate Asian American expression. Patel was one of the main events promoted beforehand.

However, his jokes quickly progressed to uncomfortable territory, including one about a gay black man who lives in his neighborhood and how “[I]t made me realize that being gay is definitely not a choice because no one wants to be gay and black.” The tension in the room increased as Patel told more jokes in this vein until organizers of the event went up on stage to stop him, citing a change in program plans.

Patel questioned why this was happening. The organizers replied that the person in charge of tech had to leave early, but Patel continued to claim that he was being cut off because the audience didn’t like his jokes. At one point, one organizer told Patel he was being disrespectful.

When asked for closing remarks, Patel responded: “I’m a generation older than all of you I know comedy,” and called the organizers incorrect in ending his set. He tried to continue speaking until his mic was cut.

… Patel joked that being gay cannot be a choice because “no one looks in the mirror and thinks, ‘this black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it.’” …

… cultureSHOCK, an annual charity showcase featuring a fashion show, productions by various student groups and a famous performer, aims to provide a platform for Asian American artistic expression and breakthrough harmful stereotypes.

… Adam Warren, CC ‘22, was in the audience Friday night. Warren said that AAA made the right decision to remove Patel from the stage due to the nature of his jokes, which contradicted the sensitive nature of the event itself. …

For Sofia Jao, BC ‘22, problems with the performance resided not in the set, but with Patel’s closing remarks.

“I really dislike when people who are older say that our generation needs to be exposed to the real world. Obviously the world is not a safe space but just accepting that it’s not and continuing to perpetuate the un-safeness of it… is saying that it can’t be changed,” said Jao. “When older generations say you need to stop being so sensitive, it’s like undermining what our generation is trying to do in accepting others and making it safer.”

The offending performance, where an actual rape is shown, or at least a woman is dragged on stage, or at least a female student consensually comes on stage and is groped, but hey, she was in tonic immobility, probably, so she could not consent anyway:

Vázquez explained that the “objectification” to which women are subjected to in such events doesn’t allow them to assume a full role in society, limiting them to becoming an object of pleasure.

Legislation is required to prohibit granting prizes to the women with the most sexual and physical appeal, a parameter that should not be used to measure a woman’s worth, much less that of a girl, she said.

Vázquez’s proposal also calls for sanctions that range from fines and reprimands to charges of human trafficking.

The initiative is part of a broader plan designed to ensure respect for gender equality after a gender alert was issued for the state in early September.

The gender alert mechanism was created in 2007 and is described by the federal government as “a set of emergency government actions to confront and eradicate violence” against women.

The Oaxaca Women’s Affairs Secretariat also intends to install offices in the 570 municipalities of the state, with special attention to those governed by ancestral indigenous customs and traditions, a form of government known as usos y costumbres.

The joke upholds the liberal ideas that being black is a struggle and being gay is not a choice. It’s like the students have a pavlovian response to shout at anyone that says the words black or gay in a tone not befitting a eulogy. This new generation has lost that famous asian sense of humor.

“When older generations say you need to stop being so sensitive, it’s like undermining what our generation is trying to do in accepting others and making it safer.” Comedy if it’s any good should make you think, and if that makes you uncomfortable, don’t go to any comedy show ever. SJWs should simply have Confirmation Bias entertainment. But hat do I know; Netflix probably just hired Ms. Jao to scout such excuse for comedy for another laugh-free “special”.

“I really dislike when people who are older say that our generation needs to be exposed to the real world. Obviously the world is not a safe space but just accepting that it’s not and continuing to perpetuate the un-safeness of it… is saying that it can’t be changed,” said Jao. “When older generations say you need to stop being so sensitive, it’s like undermining what our generation is trying to do in accepting others and making it safer.”

[Nimesh] Patel attended New York University where he started out as a pre-med student. He graduated from the Stern School of Business with a degree in finance in 2008

If he hadn’t graduated right in the middle of the global financial crisis, he might have been a mid-career Wall Street banker, rather than writing jokes for SNL as the ” the first Indian American writer on SNL.”

South Asian comics are apparently having their moment. Hasan Minhaj has his own political comedy show and of course Goatface.

There have been a handful of them around over the last decade, though none of them seem to have broken into the big time. Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar) Asif Mandvi (The Colbert Report), Aziz Ansari, Hasan Minhaj and the Canadian Russell Peters come to mind. I understand Russell Peters makes a lot of money touring overseas.

South Asians, like African-Americans, have expressive faces. There are a few East Asian comedians around, too, but seem to be less successful. I recall a Chinese-American colleague once complained to me at work that an Indian co-worker got a promotion because “they have the gift of the gab.” Maybe there’s something to that. But nowhere near as much as the Jewish gift of the gab, or Irish, for that matter, IMHO.

Were the Red Guard this unbelievably infantile and whiny? Jao must have found sitting through any set distressing with all the butthurt she’s saddled with, not to mention with the epic delusions of control.

“However, his jokes quickly progressed to uncomfortable territory, including one about a gay black man who lives in his neighborhood and how “[I]t made me realize that being gay is definitely not a choice because no one wants to be gay and black.” ”

Uncomfortable territory – meaning no one laughed at a joke that was likely told in a similar version by Eddie Murphy 35 years ago.

There was just a story at Ars Technica about Tesla getting sued for a racist atmosphere. Unmentioned was the fact that every single black man fired for some screamingly obvious infraction shoots back a racism claim on his way out the door.

If Robin Williams or Steve Martin were young comedians today starting out, what types of jokes would they do? That whole coke fueled off the wall insane impromptu anything goes would have to be a politically correct lecture from Wanda Sykes. Just compare SNL then and now. John Belushi v Alec Baldwin. Watching it today is like getting an enema.

I think part of the slit-like eye thing with East Asians is that it makes them hard to read – what they think is very inscrutable. It makes them poor comics but good bluffers. Handy in business negotiations.

I think part of the slit-like eye thing with East Asians is that it makes them hard to read – what they think is very inscrutable. It makes them poor comics but good bluffers. Handy in business negotiations.

While she’s not a comedienne, I find rapper Awkwafina (Nora Lum) so damn funny. Too bad she has videos on YouTube of anti-white, anti-Trump rants.

It might seem funny now, but this generation consists of many non-Americans or kids of ones who will grow up to be oppressive Bolsheviks. Just wait and see. No civics in high school. No allegiance to this country.

While she’s not a comedienne, I find rapper Awkwafina (Nora Lum) so damn funny. Too bad she has videos on YouTube of anti-white, anti-Trump rants.

You tricked me into watching that video. Never seen her before. She is egregiously unfunny. A story with no punchline, and her conclusion is false. She is not enough. She needs affirmative action sensibilities to fuel her acting career.

I’ve never found closeted lesbians to be funny. Just initially annoying, and finally tragic in a shallow way.

Trust me. That China girl “eats at the Y”. Her story about getting a boyfriend is farcical.

East Asians have that whole agreeable, rice farmer nature. Comedy seems to attract intelligent assholes, the essence of which is both intelligence to create the jokes and the disagreeability to make them. As such it is the domain of males, especially white, Jewish, and black.

Jews in particular, verbally facile, intelligent, with a culture of argument, they were born to do comedy. You might expect that there would be more Jewish guys at the top end of comedy but there are at least as many goys it seems.

This ‘golden age’ of British comedy was most likely down to the legacy of the old-time Music Hall performers – tough, hardbitten cynical characters – who had to live on their wits in order to survive. As the old joke had it, many a comedian died, on stage, at the Glasgow Empire, at the hands of even tougher hard bitten cyncics who took to comic-baiting as a blood-sport. Only if a comic was funny enough to crack a smile on the granite faces of the hairy arsed shipyard workers and dockers would he be given a stay of execution. It was, literally, a case of beheading the Jester if he got stale.

Add to the fact that this particular generation of ‘comedy greats’ more or less grew up in the rough tough Britain of the 1930s, WW2 and post war rationing and austerity.

The result was a certain type of hard boiled hardfaced cynic, ever ready to prick pomposity and to ‘cock a snook’.

Comedy reached its greatest heights as a subversive form of expression. Oscar Wilde would have been pointless in a permissive society. Comedy always had to be risque. Lenny Bruce got a lot of mileage out of it.

And then, there was total freedom for comedians to be as outrageous as possible. It was funny for awhile but got pointless because all taboos were broken. People could use F-words and talk about graphic sexual details. No one was taking risks anymore. So, comedians could compete by getting grosser and more putrid. But even that got boring.

But now, PC is really creating a climate of repression, and so comedy can be risque again. But what is esp funny is PC considers itself to be risque and subversive. Edgy. So, its rationale for repression of individual liberty is to preserve ‘radical’ freedom. It’s like a blade that has to be perpetually sheathed to prevent blunting or breaking. It defeats its own purpose. A knife is meant to cut, but what happens when it is always sheathed to protect its sharpness? It no longer functions as a knife. The radicals once took pride in being edgy, but that edginess has been institutionalized. Everything institutionalized must be protected and preserved. So, PC’s radicalism has become in name only. It is a protected blade that is afraid to be drawn to duel.

But this provides opportunity for comedians to subvert the power again.

Homo globalists who wage hateful & divisive war on morality and biological truth and promote sexual degeneracy are now our moral betters preaching sermons. ROTFL. Tim Cook knows best because he indulges in homo fecal penetration as the blessing of god. He knows all about SIN.

Apple CEO Tim Cook suggests it's "a sin" to not ban certain people from social media and technology platforms: "We only have one message for those who seek to push hate, division, and violence: You have no place on our platforms. You have no home here." pic.twitter.com/gO5qB6bBuO

“There was just a story at Ars Technica about Tesla getting sued for a racist atmosphere.”

The writing is on the wall for Silicon Valley just like it was for Venezeula’s Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) just before Chavez took over. Even with the world’s largest proven reserves, Venezuela was left an impoverished – now authoritarian – nightmare. Democracy…what a farce.

“One of Chavez’s final acts, ordered last month from his hospital bed, was to cut the price of the national currency by a third—the seventh devaluation of his presidency—in an attempt to narrow a staggering deficit with a hike in the cost of living for Venezuelans. He died yesterday at the age of 58, leaving behind a nation struggling with shortages of housing, food, goods, and electricity, along with high inflation and rampant crime.”

With “demographic changes”, how much longer will it be before an incompetent like Alexandria Cortez comes to power and enforces diversity quotas for the tech industry, sending it to China? If I were the management of IBM, I’d be thinking of back up plans for moving elsewhere just in case; and if I were Xi, I’d be making similar plans for welcoming Western tech companies.

Frankly, it strikes me as just incredible that supposedly educated people in the US couldn’t or wouldn’t see common sense staring them in the face before reality hit them head on. I guess this justifies the old saying that “history repeats itself; first as tragedy, then as farce” – except replace ‘history’ with democracy and Athens with America.

A little attention to population numbers might help you over your surprise.

Not really. I am allowing for it. Why should Jews dominate say, chess or billionaire lists more than comedy? Or should I talk about comedy writing rather than comedy delivering… e.g. the Zuckers and Abrams behind the Leslie Nielsens.

Remember back when shows like Quantum Leap would air episodes attacking stuffy old conservatives for not liking Rock n Roll back in the day? I remember one episode where a mob of stuffy old conservatives attacked a radio station that aired some rock music.

It’s almost as if this were never really about freedom in general, but merely the Left using the media and entertainment industries to promote their own freedoms. When given a chance to censor others, they take it with glee.

“In 2015, one of us, Daphna Joel, led an analysis of four large data sets of brain scans, and found that the sex differences you see overall between men’s and women’s brains aren’t neatly and consistently seen in individual brains. In other words, humans generally don’t have brains with mostly or exclusively “female-typical” features or “male-typical” features. Instead, what’s most common in both females and males are brains with “mosaics” of features, some of them more common in males and some more common in females.

Daphna Joel and colleagues then applied the same kind of analysis to large data sets of psychological variables, to ask: Do sex differences in personality characteristics, attitudes, preferences, and behaviors add up in a consistent way to create two types of humans, each with its own set of psychological features? The answer, again, was no: As for brain structure, the differences created mosaics of feminine and masculine personality traits, attitudes, interests, and behaviors. ”

Only the other day researchers claimed that AI can distinguish with 93% accuracy between male and female brains, although I see the brains all belonged to prisoners. I bet if you took 1400 random prisoners from US jails, and without scanning their brains said “they are all male” you’d be right 93% of the time. Alas the complete methodology is behing a paywall.

“Models using components of brain gray matter volume and concentration were able to differentiate between males and females with greater than 93% generalizable accuracy. Highly differentiated components include orbitofrontal and frontopolar regions, proportionally larger in females, and anterior medial temporal regions proportionally larger in males. We also provide a complimentary analysis of a nonforensic healthy control sample and replicate our 93% sex discrimination. These findings demonstrate that the brains of males and females are highly distinguishable. “

“Do sex differences in personality characteristics, attitudes, preferences, and behaviors add up in a consistent way to create two types of humans, each with its own set of psychological features? The answer, again, was no.”

This is an example of using semantics to obscure a conclusion, or, more specifically, using a definition to guide a conclusion to an intended destination. For example, consider the following statement:

“Evidence shows that cars do not only come in dark colors. Therefore, it is a myth that cars only come in dark or light colors.” [implied conclusion: cars come in both colors equally]

Of course, different colored cars do exist, but they also tend to cluster more around dark colors like red, grey, and blue and less on light colors such as yellow and pink. Same applies here. It may be true that these different characteristics exist on somewhat of a gradient, but they also clump pretty significantly as well, so it is not correct to imply – as this author did – that they are distributed equally between both poles. That is a fallacy.

As the poster pointed out, there are indeed noticeable differences between male and female brains and those differences usually (but not always) correlate with typical male / female behaviors; these differences can also often be seen on the brain images of some transgenders. The point of the opinion piece was to promote a conclusion based upon a biased definition that guided a result to the intended destination. The OpEd writer wants to obscure the line between male and female, masculine and feminine, in order to assert that these things exist in a gradient that is equal between both ends. Of course, this is not the case as they tend to clump together in ways that we would typically define as gender.

“Right. Note how they clamor for a ban on all those rap and hip hop ditties.”

Unlike in this case, they never got their way. Baby It’s Cold Outside was recently banned. The Left supported “freedom” when they thought they could be censored. Now, they are all for censoring. Funny how that works.

Most heterosexual women don’t want them banned. Women like to look nice. They spend billions of dollars on haircare and makeup and clothes (including things like two-piece bikinis). One of the most common cosmetic procedures in the US is breast augmentation; and it works quite well as over 70% of females who get the procedure reporting greater life satisfaction. Over all, only a relatively small percentage of American women say they would use the word “feminist” to describe themselves. Most of this comes from the outsized influence wielded by urban, upperclass and wannabe upperclass, liberals and lesbians. They certainly do not represent most females. It’s ironic that feminists bemoan a patriarchy that does not exist and supposedly limits their freedom when in reality it mostly comes from beta male dorks and urban lesbians who don’t speak for normal women…at all.

Jews no longer dominate chess either. They dominate billionaire lists but a billion dollars takes a while to accumulate. That is a relic of the past. As their numbers decline, Jewish humor will be as forgotten as Woody Allen. Completely. The new “Americans” will have no interest in all of that. And there is no fun in Islam.

“Will someone please explain why Bono is not now living in a Zimbabwe slum?”

Why don’t upperclass liberals vacation in Hatti? Trump put it in the news by calling it a s***h***, so wouldn’t the perfect way to celebrate the dems taking back the house be to fly there en masse and report back on how great it is, proving Trump a liar? I don’t understand this. It’s not like the left is known for saying one thing and then doing another, right?

I think people misunderstand jokes like this. The joke isn’t making fun of being gay and/or black.

The joke is making fun of society and bigotry while affirming the immutable nature of sexuality.

It’s lampooning the idea that people choose to be gay, which used to be a big part of the argument that homosexuality was immoral.

To be fair, society has largely moved beyond whether being gay is a choice or not. Young people don’t even care. Sexuality is a benign difference to them. The “it isn’t a choice” argument was always something of a pity argument, also. “Yeah, being gay is gross, but they didn’t choose to be that way, so leave them alone.” People have moved onto the “Love is love” argument, or “They aren’t hurting anyone,” or even just, “Mind your own business.”

Given the new cultural context, I suppose the joke doesn’t really make sense anymore.

I am confused. We have been told for 20 years that gays are just born that way. Now it is a choice, just like the Religious Right has been saying? Or is it sometimes a choice and sometimes they are born that way? Or are they born that way then make a choice to live the life?
It was way easier when they just lived with their elderly mothers and wore bow ties.

The world writhes in hunger, disease and mayhem, and these orchids wilt in their flimsy, ivory-tower hothouses over a one-degree shift of breeze. I truly will weep with relief when the rapefugees and economy, and other depredations of the ruling class, as well as natural disasters, waken the saveable few and then does in the rest. Come, reset, COME! THAT will M.A.G.A.!

“I really dislike when people who are older say that our generation needs to be exposed to the real world. … it’s like undermining what our generation is trying to do in accepting others and making it safer.”

This is the world you live in, you dumb b*tch. We’re just trying to tell you.

Like most non-Southerners I find pageants a bit tacky and ridiculous, but banning them? The pageant lifestyle can’t be any more harmful than ballet are the more “hardcore” adolescent sports training, can it?

Second from the left isn’t matron age, though she might have kids. Many Hispanic women, specially if closer to the native end of the spectrum, can pack on the pounds after getting their first kid(s), with all the rice and maize and bread. It’s more usual thus for Hispanic men to get younger mistresses, which in these “empowered” days however means more sugarbabies (or, discarded cat ladies) and less wives. So who knows, brown society might benefit from going keto…

But what is esp funny is PC considers itself to be risque and subversive.

It’s about as risque and subversive as Queen Victoria.

Norm MacDonald continues to subversively tweak PC. The early episodes of the Sarah Silverman Show had some subversive, non-PC humor but it appears she decided to swallow the blue pill and go PC whole hog.

On the other hand, porn (aka filmed, safer, much more profitable, much much more virtue-signaling sex work) is more prevalent than ever. True, “the industry” complains lots about internet piracy, but much more so the “talent”. Producers, as owners of the tapes and websites, will reap in more money than the poor exhibitionists, and much more so the ad revenue biz and the tech trust (which may just buy out “the industry” outright). There are more producers, a wider bottom of pyramid so to speak, but the top remains consolidated and stronger than ever. Similar to the music business, which is only somewhat less seedy and exploitative, or really the whole of showbiz…

Obviously legalized brothels would drive down costs at first. Anything that makes sex with hot women cheaper for men, would in turn make normal women in general more subservient and submissive when dating, yet also more conservative on the outside as they don’t want their value decreasing any lower (Hispanic countries for example, where brothels are legal -and wide ranging in quality- but abortion not so much – because abortion makes pregnancy cheap but sex not so much).

But then again, like I mention about legalized porn above (and maybe like the current legal weed market), an oligopoly-style integration might also happen in the West concerning brothels, and thus the price of sex may not come down but rather become disparate in extremes even more – specially if female hyperconsumption and feminazi-slut-worship trends continue. The current abundance of sluts, instead of making normal women shame them like in other times, now becomes something to be proud of in the West. With mass birth control and STD prevention and treatments, plus affirmative action, social media orbiters, and cultural feminism, there would be quite a different effect to legalizing prostitution. In other times, the women of a village occasionally railed against a local harlot or house of sin. Today, fewer and fewer would. Except that just like back then, they would blame strictly the men and their satyr-like ways.

Full Disclosure–I am middle aged. But I think it’s great what these kids are doing.

Thanks to this generation, there has never been a better time to be past one’s prime. Think about it–at all other times in history, being in 40s and 50s was kind of sad. You’d be getting older and looking at all the fun the younger crowd was having. It would inspire all kinds of feelings of jealousy, and regret.

But now? Looking at 22 year olds with micro-aggressions and hyper-political correctness? F-f-fuck That. Treating young adults who should be pushing boundaries like 8 year olds with milk and cookies –and safe spaces. It’s bizarre and quite pathetic. No cool movies (must be politically correct), no edgy music (little boy bands panzies and Lana Del Ray skanks)…always posing on social media (22 year-old dudes men air-brushing selfies for Christ sake!)

And look at the losers on all those smartphone ads. Hilarious. Grown ass men getting giddy over some app with a talking turd. L-O-S-E-R-S.

Title IX sexual harassment cases for consensual acts that occurred years ago…that require no due-process…no wonder these young men panzies just sit around with video games.

A bunch of fragile punks staring into stupid iPhones with absolutely nothing going on. Little workout apps (yeah, I got an app to help me do deadlifts…idiot!)…Self-Esteem Daily affirmation apps…apps to tell you if it’s raining?!?!?!?!?

Sure, I sound like a lunatic old man yelling at the kids to ‘get off my lawn’…whatever. Old my Ass. I’m a regular semi-washed middle-aged man….and yet I’m cooler, and I’m edgier than these twits. It really is quite pathetic.

Now, don’t get me wrong–I don’t hate them (even though I sound like I do). I just hate the way the culture has run amok an entire generation. Just awful.

Just imagine Keats writing Ode To a Grecian Urn looking at these losers. Ridiculous.

That crabby ol Ayatollah Khomeini famously said, “There in no humor in Islam”. Same applies to Social Justice Warriorism. Even the not_funny_in_20_years Jerry Seinfeld was complaining about how colleges received his jokes and humor.

The locker-room rape case did make the local teevee news (dunno about the CultMarx Baltimore Sun, I gave up years ago). I remarked to Mrs. ic1000, “Hardly any blacks around Damascus, but it’s football… with no mention of race, it’s probably white on white, possibly a black on white ‘hate crime,’ definitely not white on black.” So now I know. Though I had to read the comments of this politics/culture website to learn that teeny tiny detail.

People have moved onto the “Love is love” argument, or “They aren’t hurting anyone,” or even just, “Mind your own business.”

Our tastemakers blew right past that stage into the current, “gays and Others are a superior type of person with insights and sensibilities beyond the ken of common man, so bow to them; and certainly don’t make any jokes about them.”

But see the bright side. So many so-called ‘Christmas Songs’, though nice, are really secularized Jewish-composed tunes about things that have nothing to do with Christmas… like drinking, dating, and getting ready for sex.

Often, the problem is they get it and just don’t like it. People got the Patel joke, and that is why he had to be Babooed.

Jokes are generally triggering and ‘offensive’. Usually, someone or something is the object of mockery. It could be others or it could be the self, usually the case with Joan Rivers and esp Rodney Dangerfield who never got any respect.

Humor usually doesn’t go well together with holiness and reverence. When what is holy is allowed to be mocked, it loses its luster. I think it was less Darwin & Marx and more Marx Brothers that did in Christianity. It’s like you can never look at opera in the same way again after NIGHT AT THE OPERA.

Ustinov’s take on SIEGRIED is hilarious. After that joke, one can’t watch that moment in the opera with ‘solemnity’ anymore. Video at 40:05.

And the Old Elites of Europe relied so much on pomp and reverence. The kings and noblemen had be to be regarded with awe. Once people began to see them as ridiculous and phony, they were doomed. Such elites can be weakened by humor or fanatical anti-humor. With the rise of modernity, people began to chuckle about the kings and queens.

But in the case of Iran, the revolt wasn’t about the Shah being a clown but a shill of the West. The rebels were fanatics who had even less sense of humor. Same in Cambodia with the Khmer Rouge. And there were Jewish communists who weren’t big on humor either. But in the capitalist West, the general Jewish way of subverting the order was through humor(and pornography as in Weimar Germany). In some cases, laughter at one authority can lead to fanatical commitment to another authority. The soldiers laugh at the elite officer in DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, but the mockery is immediately followed up with brutal violence and silence. Whatever the result, few things are as effective in undermining respect for authority as laughter. This is why PC can’t abide by humor directed at what it deems holy. If humor could bring down respect/reverence for kings, ideologies, and God Himself, it can bring down anything.

Humor can be gentle or G-rated(like on Hee-Haw), but is most effective at PG-13 to R-rated level. (X-rated standup with all that about puds and poons got tiresome UNLESS the comic has real talent, like Sam Kinison and Eddie Murphy, esp. Mr T. as fa**ot.) And edgier humor will always sting its victims. Granted, humor is often self-effacing or double-targeted, passive/aggressive. It mocks the mocker along with the mocked, like with Sanford and Julio on SANFORD AND SON. There are lots of ‘Hispanic’ jokes but the joke is also on Sanford as black bigot.

Now, in our post-religious age, nothing should be holy, but as Jonathan Haidt and many others remarked, there is something about psychology that is righteous or holy-schmoly, and new gods are erected by forms of cultural consensus formed by controllers of mass media. Some things or peoples can take on holiness even if they are not part of any official religion. MLK and Mandela are not seen as literal gods, but the idolatry around them has consecrated them as figures deserving of utmost reverence. Homos are associated with ‘rainbow’ colors, Jews always with Shoah, and blacks with slavery(as evil second only to Shoah) and Civil Rights Movement, the Narrative of which is about Good vs Evil with nothing in between. Granted, it’s downright schizo in trying to maintain reverential thoughts about Jews, blacks, and homos. Jews want to be regarded as the solemn Shoah People, but they are naturally funny, goofy, and irreverent. So, when we think of Jews, we are not sure to think of Groucho or Anne Frank. Blacks want to us see them as ‘We Shall Overcome’ people, but so much of black culture is loony, nuts, and ridiculous. In some ways, INGLORIOUS BASTERDS and DJANGO UNCHAINED convey this schizo-ness: Moralism + Irreverent Sadism. And homos. It’s amazing how many people regard the AIDS epidemic as a kind of homo-holocaust when it was the result of homos acting like a bunch of ludicrous fruits butt-banging one another like crazed rabbits.

Patel’s ‘sin’ was he mocked blackness and homosexuality. Now, one could argue that his joke was ultimately sympathetic to blacks and homos: they have a hard time in the world due to ‘racism’ and ‘homophobia’. Still, he made a joke of it, and PC won’t tolerate mockery of the holy-schmolies. It undermines reverence, and that means PC’s grip is weakened.

If he had joked thus about any other group, even Asians, it would have been okay. But Jews, homos, and Negroes are untouchable no matter the issue or problem. Just revere and quasi-worship them. In a way, the joke-that-no-one-got is that Asians live up to stereotypes. They suck up to power and conform to the Official Narrative. Since blacks and homos are holy in the Jewish-controlled West, Asians submit to the Narrative and Iconography most sheepishly. The perimeters of their humor is determined by the Power.

You could observe this on all-comedy-guest talk shows like the old “Tough Crowd.” Unlike an interview or podcast where the joke teller controls the spoken rhythm, in a group setting it’s easy to accidentally rush the punchline or otherwise not stick the landing on a prepared bit (assuming someone else in the group doesn’t sabotage you outright). Timing is if not everything 99% of comic technique. This is Trump’s advantage, when his material itself is often howlingly bad or incoherent. Anyone can have good writers. Only a natural can seamlessly simulate “offhand mirth” in front of an easily distracted audience.

The biggest unexploded landmine in U.S.-dominated pop media is the nomenklatura’s intersectional indulgence of coarse/macho/[x]-phobic black rap of the NWA school. Its vast international profitability and imitation proves how toothless the globo-left’s speech codes and nostrums about “rape culture” really are, provided you belong to a racial group with official immunity–which btw, “does not exist” (race)

The complete surrender of not only “feminists” but most women voters everywhere to legal ubiquitous porn is a strong sign they’re completely full of it. It’s a “What’s The Matter With Kansas” dynamic. Very few women out of those *who work in the business* benefit from it, much less all the substandard-for-porn women receiving no payments from it, or from real workaday prostitution. But they’ve all been brainwashed to think anti-porn laws would be something foisted on them by uncool, icky Bible-thumping Republicans, like their dads, or whatever. In reality GOP have given up on being stern dads decades ago, but such is the reasoning process of women.

Anyway courtesy of the Silicon Valley messiahs a lot of ordinary skanks now get to daydream about waggling their bits in front of a webcam for shopping money if needed. Thanks to the globalized skank-market, it even works out as a productive “cottage industry.”

Patel didn’t get the memo. You can only make fun of your own kind these days.

Russell Peters made a career out of making fun of Indians and Chinese, i.e. Asians making fun of Asians, that’s acceptable. Only blacks can make fun of blacks, only gays can make fun of gays, only women can make fun of women, and only Jews can make fun of Jews. The only group that is fair game for everyone to laugh at is conservative gentile white males.

The artistic intent of Satire is to ruffle the pearl-clutchers, and make fun of conventional norms that have become absurd. The new drama is the Satirists are being forced to contend with their own traditional political base, which is EXTREMELY powerful in a satirist’s world.

If you’re a performer, if you’re a writer, liberal’s control your paycheck unless you go rogue and establish a Youtube or podcast following, but even then, Youtube can and does demonetized the video’s their monitor kids don’t agree with, and PayPal does the same. Even Patreon can cut your cash flow.

So unless you’re a satirist who’s very rich uncle just died, your ability to practice your art is hampered,
and your long-term fiscal viability is always in significant danger.

If we agree that the Satirist is a healthy culture’s “canary in the coal mine,” our current measure of satirical health portends to a dark destiny indeed.

When Whites brown out or otherwise disappear, Jews will lose most of their power too, but they don’t care. Then Islam will revert to what it always was and in centuries, or millennia hence, a new order will emerge again.

Muslims will not be controllable by Jews , counter to what many Jews think. What will control Muslims is their own backwardness and depravity.

A small, tough White remnant will survive, but it will be centuries before it comes back to the level of 1955-65 America. Generations will live like Amish, with no electricity or motor vehicles.

But I’ll be dead by then.

A few of our younger readers might get a front row seat though.
Bon appetit.

That’s the kind of shirt that I’ll wear painting when they send me one in the mail with instructions to: “Send us your tax-deductible donation now, or just send back the shirt, if you don’t support Africa and Bono.” Yeah, how ’bout I keep the damn shirt, donate Jack Squat, and send you this envelope back with your postage telling Bono he needs to shut up and sing? It’s a win/win/win, for me at least.

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If an Arab-owned internet platform kicks off every last Jew, he is within the law, and the law says that the kicked-off need to get their own platform or shut up. This is why we need a cultural reckoning with sweeping legal reform.

I’m not looking forward to the collapse of Western Civilization. And I admit to wondering if somehow scientific breakthroughs will pull us through or if the whole thing will start breaking down like the South African electricity supply. Or if there will be some outposts of civilization like the Byzantine Empire.

Daphna Joel and colleagues then applied the same kind of analysis to large data sets of psychological variables, to ask: Do sex differences in personality characteristics, attitudes, preferences, and behaviors add up in a consistent way to create two types of humans, each with its own set of psychological features? The answer, again, was no: As for brain structure, the differences created mosaics of feminine and masculine personality traits, attitudes, interests, and behaviors. ”

It’s called a bi-modal distribution and it very much does suggest, in aggregate, two populations.

“Racism” and “hate” when used in a spoils opportunity setting are simply part of the shake-down vocabulary of the sacramental irrationality movement dba social justice. Reason that impedes spoils is either hate, racism or both.

Both terms are used most regularly by shake-down artists and their facilitators.

Tolerance (or any of the other values from the Enlightenment) is not a suicide pact. The value of tolerance does not mean to roll over and look the other way when hate of the other for its own sake of the other is the only motivation. For example, when a fascist runs his car into a group of anti-Nazi protestors, the response should not be ‘both sides have good points and both sides are to blame’. The response is to be intolerant towards the fascist and his beliefs. (Call me a hypocrite; I don’t care about consistency when it comes to standing up against fascist).

The vast amount of time had on TV as himself was an advantage, plus he is a natural.
Trump knew how to sabotage his rival’s best moments without actually interrupting, what actors call “stealing focus”. As when Clinton was doing well in the second debate

In related (?) news, black comedian Mariah Smith just had a column, about the marriage of Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, pulled from New York Magazine’s The Cut for being racist. Fast Company reports some of the arguments. Apparently it’s racist to… be cynical about an Indian celebrity? talk about her wealth? highlight the Indian cultural elements in her wedding in India? One tweet recorded by Fast Company complains “You can’t claim to stand for #BlackLivesMatter and then use your western privilege to bring down a successful woman from global south”, but has since been deleted with an apology and a call for intersectional sisterhood.

I’m not looking forward to the collapse of Western Civilization. And I admit to wondering if somehow scientific breakthroughs will pull us through or if the whole thing will start breaking down like the South African electricity supply. Or if there will be some outposts of civilization like the Byzantine Empire.

The collapse of western civilisation is not going to be fun but it’s unfortunately necessary. Western civilisation has chosen sekf-destruction.

The real tragedy would be if the West takes genuine outposts of civilisation like China and Russia down the toilet with it.

Did a small Latin remnant survive the demise of the Western Empire in this manner? Pretty sure they mostly blended into the degenerated milieu.

Civilisation did eventually recover. By the 12th century western Europe had made an impressive comeback. Medieval civilisation has had a bad press but it was arguably superior to classical civilisation.

But the extent to which the new civilisation was based on a rediscovery of classical civilisation has been wildly exaggerated. It was pretty much a brand new civilisation. So really the collapse of classical civilisation in the West was pretty final. Looking at our current civilisation it would possibly be better if no remnants of it survive.

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The way that their affair started was that Engelhart saw Allen at a famous restaurant (where she had been taken by another sugar daddy) and left him a note with her phone #. She was the predator and he was the prey.
In those pre-cell phone days he had to call her house where her mom or yo...

Yes, exactly. Vocational education disappeared along with our manufacturing base. There's no point in training people to be tool & die makers if there are no factories. No point in learning sewing if there's no garment industry. Etc. "College for All" became a thing because it kept unemplo...

Citizen of a Silly Country wrote to me:Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but civic nationalist is just a stop-gap as well. I’ve already gone down your path, started as a libertarian and moved to an iSteve civic nationalist.Perhaps I wasn't clear: I still hold pretty much the same "libertarian...

p.s. another hilarious Password seen in that essay is compulsively adding the words "and Latino" after each use of "African-American". Professor Feldman needs us to know that as far as he is concerned it is not even a conceivable question whether Latini should be part of the future Diversity C...

Svigor wrote:Libertarians don’t oppose the panoply of “anti-discrimination” (anti-freedom) laws. Bye-bye, libertarian credibility.Well... all libertarians opposed such laws as violation of freedom of association back in the good old days. The Mises-Institute types still do.
But, no one ...

This is a benefit of having over a billion low empathy people in your ethnostate which also has strategic nukes. No one tells you what to do internally. It just gets done.
Remember that only white people can be racist, goy.
If Jews ran China, I guarantee you this wouldn't be happening. C...

One more followup. The fact they are now adding $11 billion in aid to Mexico and Central America while refusing funds for the wall is akin to Dirty Harry saying, "go ahead. Make my day". They are taunting him to shut down the government because they feel he won't. There is some se...

Eugenics is the Nuremberg laws and sterilization of mental patients, but is not so much a part of the Holocaust. Extermination of Jews and all the other targeted groups was ideologically a therapeutic and aesthetic program. Propaganda and rhetoric had the imagery of rats and bacteria (filth, imp...

More people should do this kind of trolling. It leaves the SJWs in an impossible position. They can remove the message they find offensive, and look ridiculous. Or they can let it stay, and accept that their invitation to free speech was counter-productive.

I’ve noticed that blacks seem particularly prone to belief in conspiracy theories, however wacky.
Nothing gets done in the black community-- or in cities like Chicago or Philadelphia even under white leadership-- except by conspiracy. Why wouldn't they think the rest of the world operates th...

“Is there any general awareness/embarrassment in the film industry that a lot of these choices didn’t age well (The Artist, anyone?).”
There is among those who actually make films, although they’d never be caught dead publicly expressing such an opinion. Unfortunately, the Academy is f...

At the age of 50, what a woman is looking for in a man is going to be much different than what she wants at the age of 20 Especially if she has spent her life taking care of children by herself, she's used to giving to others. So maybe your sister felt sorry for her new husband and wants to ta...

Again, how do you respond to the detailed and sourced narrative, compliments of “Proof Of Collusion”?
You are better off writing a good review on Amazon to help sell his books rather than shilling for it here.

No, I explained why some posters here essentially have blinders on, like yourself.
^Half-truth
In the manner that you are right now doing? Clearly, you do, or you would not be responding emotionally.
^Projection

The telltale sign that it's Password is that the statement is out of place, with no logical connection to the rest of the text. If the piece also rambles on without saying anything objectionable, indeed without conveying any thought at all, it is one of those reports the Party functionaries need...

I don't know if this is adding insult to injury or rubbing salt into an open wound. But it is definitely parody. On the day where it appears Trump will cave on the wall comes this announcement that the USA is going to provide almost $11 billion in aid to parts of Mexico and Central America.
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It’s gonna be a while still before anyone can alienate the white vote and still capture the presidency.
By attacking whites, a candidate appeals to both non whites and good whites who gain status by being anti white. So, it is a smart move